WoRMS taxon details
Pristiophorus japonicus Günther, 1870
282353 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:282353)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Pristiophorus japonicus Günther, 1870. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282353 on 2025-10-25
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Nomenclature
original description
Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ノコギリザメ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pristiophorus japonicus)
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 32 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Pristiophorus japonicus Günther, 1870; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3100272)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pristiophorus japonicus RAD107110-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pristiophorus japonicus RAD109869-001)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pristiophorus japonicus)
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 32 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Pristiophorus japonicus Günther, 1870; SYNTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3100272)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pristiophorus japonicus RAD107110-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Pristiophorus japonicus RAD109869-001)
From editor or global species database
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